The following is a summary of the system requirements and supported platforms for the BlueDragon family of products:
Important: Please refer to and thoroughly review the BlueDragon Installation Guide under Documentation in the BlueDragon Support section for additional details that you should review before installing any version of BlueDragon: BlueDragon Documentation.
BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework allows you to natively integrate and deploy your CFML on the .NET platform. Leverage BlueDragon for native high-performance integration with ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# and Visual Basic.NET.
Deployable as a .NET Framework assembly residing in the .NET Global Assembly Cache (GAC), BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework offers true native platform deployment of CFML on the .NET platform.
OS / Web Server Support
BlueDragon 9.0 for the Microsoft .NET Framework is supported on the following systems:
Operating System | Web Server |
Windows Server 2019 | |
Windows Server 2016 | |
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 8.1 |
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Windows Server 20012
Windows 8 |
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Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7 (x86 & x64) |
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Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista (x86 & x64) |
Microsoft .NET Framework Support
BlueDragon 9.0 is supported on Microsoft .NET Framework versions 4.0 and higher.
If you require deployment of BlueDragon on an OS/web server combination not listed above, please consider the other versions of BlueDragon offered below, such as Server JX and the Java EE edition.
Please refer to the BlueDragon 9.0 Installation Guide and the Deploying CFML on ASP.NET and the .NET Framework White Paper for more details.
BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework allows you to natively integrate and deploy your CFML on the .NET platform. Leverage BlueDragon for native high-performance integration with ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# and Visual Basic.NET.
Deployable as a .NET Framework assembly residing in the .NET Global Assembly Cache (GAC), BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework offers true native platform deployment of CFML on the .NET platform.
End of Support
BlueDragon 7.1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework uses Visual J# which reached end of support on 10/10/2017. The end of support for the latest operating system supported by it, Windows Server 2008 R2, is 1/14/2020. Therefore, it is highly recommended that customers use BlueDragon 9.0 for the Microsoft .NET Framework instead.
OS / Web Server Support
BlueDragon 7.1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework is supported on the following systems:
Operating System | Web Server |
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7 (x86 & x64) |
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Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista (x86 & x64) |
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Windows Server 2003
(x86 & x64) |
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Windows XP Professional |
Microsoft .NET Framework Support
BlueDragon 7.1 is supported on Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5.
BlueDragon 7.1 also requires Visual J# .NET Version 2.0 Redistributable Package - Second Edition which is included in the BlueDragon installer.
The following unsigned third-party files are installed by BlueDragon.NET 7.1.
If you require deployment of BlueDragon on an OS/web server combination not listed above, please consider the other versions of BlueDragon offered below, such as Server JX and the Java EE edition.
BlueDragon 7.1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework is not supported on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, nor on IA-64 platforms.
Please refer to the BlueDragon 7.1 Installation Guide and the Deploying CFML on ASP.NET and the .NET Framework White Paper for more details.
BlueDragon 7.1 Server JX is a standalone CFML server with support for the Windows and Linux Platforms. Web Server adapters are included for Microsoft and Apache web servers. BlueDragon Server JX also includes a built-in web server for development, testing and light deployment (i.e. embedded applications).
OS / Web Server Support
BlueDragon 7.1 Server JX is supported on the following systems:
Operating System | Web Server |
Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows 7 (both x86 & x64) |
2.2.3 - 2.2.x 2.0.50 - 2.0.x |
Windows Server 2008/Vista (both x86 & x64) |
2.2.3 - 2.2.x 2.0.50 - 2.0.x |
Windows Server 2003 (both x86 & x64) |
2.2.3 - 2.2.x 2.0.50 - 2.0.x |
Windows XP Professional |
2.2.3 - 2.2.x 2.0.50 - 2.0.x |
Red Hat EL 5 & 4 CentOS 5 & 4 Fedora Core 9, 8, & 7 SuSE Linux 10 & 9 (all on x86 & x64) |
2.2.3 - 2.2.x 2.0.50 - 2.0.x |
Solaris Mac OS X |
Solaris and Mac OS X has been discontinued. still available with the BlueDragon Java EE edition (see below). |
BlueDragon 7.1 Server JX is not supported on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000, nor on IA-64 platforms.
Please refer to the BlueDragon 7.1 Installation Guide for more details.
Note: If you need to deploy BlueDragon on combinations of OS platform and/or web servers not listed here, consider using BlueDragon for Java EE Application Servers. BlueDragon/JavaEE allows you to deploy CFML applications on any standard Java EE server (minimally supporting Servlet API 2.2 or higher).
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BlueDragon/JavaEE allows you to deploy CFML applications on any standard Java EE server (minimally supporting Servlet API 2.2 or higher). You can deploy your CFML as a standard Java EE web application and singularly from within a standard EAR/WAR file - without installing any additional CFML server or external application software.
Application Server Support
BlueDragon 7.1 for Java EE Application Servers runs on all platform and web server combinations supported by the following Java EE Application Server versions using JVM version 1.5 or 1.6 (unless otherwise specified):
Java EE Application Server |
Oracle WebLogic 9.x & 10.x |
IBM WebSphere 6.1 |
JBoss 5.x & 6.x |
BlueDragon/JavaEE is supported on any operating system supported by these application servers, including 64-bit versions.
Please refer to the BlueDragon 7.1 Installation Guide and the Deploying CFML on Java EE Servers White Paper for more details.